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One of the oldest cultivated ornamentals, Rosa is a broad and complex genus with over 100 species and thousands of cultivated varieties. Roses are woody shrubs or rambling climbers that originate from Northwestern Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. They are either deciduous, evergreen or semi-evergreen, and all have stems lined with sharp woody thorns.

Roses have been grown for their beauty, food, perfume and medicine for nearly 5000 years. Early rose references and depictions...

Don't confuse the much more abundant prickly wild rose with the common wild rose when you take hikes in forests and meadows. The prickly wild rose has numerous spines and bristles on its sienna-brown twigs. This rose species is nearly circumboreal in its natural distribution. It's found across the northern half of North America, northern Europe, Siberian Russia and across Kazakhstan, Korea, Japan, China and Mongolia in Asia. Although a deciduous shrub, the mature size and habit of the prickly wild...

Touted as one of the oldest hybrid roses in existence, Rosa x alba is an ancestor of many modern garden roses. This robust, disease resistant hybrid of Rosa canina and probably Rosa x damascena has been long cultivated in the Middle East for many centuries. A shrubby rose, its double or semi-double white flowers emit a lovely fragrance and are used to produce valuable rose oil.

The slightly arching stems of Rosa x alba are lined with very prickly hooked thorns....

The flowers of ‘Alba Maxima' are clear white and fully double with shorter petals radiating towards the center of each deliciously scented bloom. Touted as one of the oldest hybrid roses in existence, Rosa x alba is an ancestor of many modern garden roses. This robust, disease resistant hybrid of Rosa canina and probably Rosa x damascena has been long cultivated in the Middle East for many centuries. A shrubby rose, its double or semi-double white flowers emit a lovely...

Admired for its clear white semi-double roses, 'Alba Semiplena' is also known to be quite disease resistant and vigorous. Touted as one of the oldest hybrid roses in existence, Rosa x alba is an ancestor of many modern garden roses. This hybrid of Rosa canina and probably Rosa x damascena has been long cultivated in the Middle East for many centuries. A shrubby rose, its double or semi-double white flowers emit a lovely fragrance and are used to produce valuable rose oil.

One of the oldest cultivated ornamentals, Rosa is a broad and complex genus with over 100 species and thousands of cultivated varieties. Roses are woody shrubs or rambling climbers that originate from Northwestern Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. They are either deciduous, evergreen or semi-evergreen, and all have stems lined with sharp woody thorns.

Roses have been grown for their beauty, food, perfume and medicine for nearly 5000 years. Early rose references and depictions...

Noisette roses such as 'Alister Stella Gray' are prized for their summer-long display of clustered, musk-scented blooms on long, "climbing" canes. They descend from an early nineteenth century hybrid between a musk rose (Rosa moschata) and the China rose 'Parson's Pink'.

The golden-flowered floribunda rose 'Allgold' boasts large flowers and a compact shrubby habit. It is an older variety that was first introduced in 1958 and bred in England by the amateur rose breeder Edward Burton LeGrice.

This hardy rose is a woody deciduous shrub with stems lined with sharp woody thorns. It has a very compact bushy habit, compound leaves that are glossy and dark to medium green and is everblooming. Its fully double flowers are large, golden yellow, lightly fragrant, and...

Bred in 1875 and the official flower of Washington, D.C., the American Beauty rose is a hybrid perpetual rose with amazingly fragrant blooms. It offers large deep pink cupped blooms with 50 petals. Vigorous in growth, this lovely rose was very popular in the florist trade, has made appearances in movies and is also known as 'Madame Ferdinand Jamin'.

Hybrid perpetual roses are generally thought of as the precursors to today’s hybrid tea roses. They tend to bloom in the spring on long sturdy...

First introduced in 1902, this lovely rambler is vigorous and puts on a spectacular floral display once a year in the late summer. American Pillar offers large clusters of single blooms with no fragrance. They are deep pink with a white center bearing lots of yellow stamens in the middle. The canes are very thorny and the leaves shiny dark green and somewhat rounded.

Roses prefer full to partial sun, moderate temperatures and perfectly drained, slightly acid soil with average to good fertility....